tropical
pronunciation
How to pronounce tropical in British English:
UK [ˈtrɒpɪkl]
How to pronounce tropical in American English:
US [ˈtrɑːpɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)
- of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic
- characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
- of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics
Word Origin
- tropical (adj.)
- 1520s, "pertaining to the celestial tropics," from tropic + -al (1). In reference to the torrid zones of the earth, from 1690s. Meaning "hot and lush like the climate of the tropics" is first attested 1834.
Example
- 1. For rent : 830000 hectares of pristine tropical rainforest .
- 2. It is also the first tropical food-giant ; the big five are all temperate producers .
- 3. Malaria is a tropical disease , right ?
- 4. Brazil 's climate is tropical , like theirs .
- 5. He died of a tropical disease in 1954 .